Astro Vellithirai

Astro Vellithirai is a 24-hour Tamil language movie channel and also known as the Tamil version of the Asian HBO, showing the local and Kollywood movies.^[1][2] The channel began its broadcast on 16 April 2007 on channel 74, and moved to channel 202 on 1 October of the same year due to channel renumbering. Most of the movies are available in Malay and English subtitles.

Astro Vellithirai

Country	Malaysia
Broadcast area	Malaysia
Programming
Language(s)	Tamil
Picture format	16:9 HDTV (1080i)
Ownership
Owner	Astro Malaysia Holdings
Parent	Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn. Bhd. (Astro)
Sister channels	Astro Vaanavil Astro Vinmeen Astro Thangathirai
History
Launched	16 April 2007 (SD) (Malaysia) 14 April 2022 (HD) (Malaysia)
Founder	Ananda Krishnan
Closed	1 July 2020 (Singapore) 14 April 2022 (SD) (Malaysia)

The channel is available for all Astro and NJOI customers.